Trump Props Up Grieving Parents To Defend Immigration Policy

Carrie Elliott

A House GOP immigration bill has been in the works with discussions expected to continue this week after a vote was postponed on Thursday, but Rep. John Yarmuth, D. "Thank you, Tornillo, for showing us a warm border welcome and reminding us that together we rise". "That's critical considering our goal is to improve our country's immigration laws", Curbelo said in a statement to Reuters.

ICE detention for migrants involve moving from foster-care type detention facilities with other children into more secure adult detention centers that resemble jails.

Last week, Trump reversed a policy of separating families entering the USA illegally at the border with Mexico.

Trump did not directly address the weeks-long controversy over his administration's policy - ended by executive order on Wednesday - of separating children from their parents at he border.

In a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday, two-thirds opposed Trump's now-discontinued policy of separating kids from their parents when they cross the border; 79 percent supported allowing the dreamers to become citizens, even though Trump revoked the protection against deportation granted to them by President Barack Obama, and two-thirds said the 11 million unauthorized immigrants now in the USA should be given a path to citizenship.

Others, particularly conservative Republicans who don't support the immigration deal, said Trump's actions should come as no surprise.

Trump, in a Monday morning tweet, said that The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, "should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders".

"We can not allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phoney stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections", he tweeted.

Despite Mr Trump's stance, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the chamber would press ahead on legislation next week.

Despite that tweet, Trump then continued to talk about immigration in subsequent following tweets.

Besides, said Rep. John Faso, R-N.Y., a supporter of the bill, maybe Trump will change his mind again: "Just wait a few hours, the tweet will be different". Census data show 13.5 percent of the US population in 2016 were immigrants.

"Game over", said Representative Mark Sanford, a Republican critic of Trump who came under withering attack from the president before losing his primary race this month.

Also, Trump is taking a risk by asking Republicans to push off a vote until after the election.

Trump backed up his complaint with the unsupported claim that undocumented immigrants are more risky than the general population and shared statistics on crimes committed by undocumented immigrants without any context. At criminal court hearings in McAllen, one lawyer identified parents separated from their children, and immigration attorney Jodi Goodwin said she followed up with them at a detention facility in Port Isabel, Texas, to collect information about their cases and their children. Doing so has been derisively called granting "amnesty" to those who entered the country illegally.

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